The first continental biennale dedicated to architecture, urbanism and spatial practice is an exceptional international story. Its African-led curatorial framework and representation across all 54 countries make it a potentially significant new institution rather than another regional design fair.
Location
Kenyatta International Convention Centre and additional sites, Nairobi, Kenya
Organizations
Pan-African Biennale — Organizer and curatorial institution
The exhibition connects Brazilian architectural history with a significant contemporary exhibition-design intervention in Shanghai. OPEN’s spatial interpretation of Bo Bardi’s work is strong enough for dedicated design coverage rather than a conventional exhibition listing.
Location
Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
Organizations
OPEN Architecture — Exhibition designer; Power Station of Art — Museum, client and venue
The Fort Worth project is an unusually consequential adaptive-reuse commission, turning a structure associated with racial terror into a community-governed center for art, education, healing, and reparative justice.
Location
1012 North Main Street, Fort Worth, Texas
Organizations
Transform 1012 N. Main Street — Client and community coalition; Studio Barnes — Design architect; ch_studio — Design architect; The Projects Group — Project management
The 22-piece release places emerging and established designers within IKEA’s mass-market production system, testing whether collectible-design language, sculptural objects and experimental material ideas can retain character at accessible prices.
Location
International IKEA markets
Organizations
IKEA — Manufacturer, retailer and collection commissioner; Andu Masebo — Contributing designer; Emanuele Stamuli — Contributing designer; Lisa Hilland — Contributing designer; Akanksha Deo — Contributing designer and visual artist
The pavilion extends architecture’s role beyond postwar reconstruction imagery to the immediate spatial needs of displaced people: stable housing, dignity, rest and the point at which survival can become living. The selection also gives an international platform to a volunteer-led adaptive-reuse housing initiative working during the war.
Location
Ukrainian Pavilion, 20th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice, Italy
Organizations
Ukrainian Institute — Commissioner and competition organizer; METALAB — Winning organization and project team; CO-HATY — Housing and adaptive-reuse initiative forming the basis of the pavilion; Ukrainian Urban Curators — CO-HATY team collaborator
A decisive local preservation development for one of South Florida’s most significant modernist structures. Voter approval gives the long-stalled restoration a credible path toward financing, design and final City Commission review, while leaving important questions about conservation standards, programming and commercial management unresolved.
Location
Miami Marine Stadium, Virginia Key, Miami, Florida, United States
Organizations
City of Miami — Owner and public approval authority; Oak View Group / Global Spectrum — Voter-approved prospective venue operator and developer of the management, construction and financing plan; Restore Miami Marine Stadium — Preservation advocacy organization; Richard J. Heisenbottle Architects — Architect responsible for previously completed renovation design and permitting identified by the City of Miami; Hilario Candela — Original architect; Jack Meyer — Original structural engineer
The new Boston civic venue tests a flexible architectural model for public science communication, combining a prominent Charles River setting with reconfigurable event infrastructure, immersive media, and hybrid broadcasting capabilities.
Location
Museum of Science, Science Park, Boston, Massachusetts
Organizations
Museum of Science, Boston — Owner and operator; William Rawn Associates — Architect; Consigli Construction Co. — Construction manager; Bloomberg Philanthropies — Lead philanthropic supporter
Removing the fixed experience-duration requirement would significantly alter the route to becoming an architect in the UK and could influence international debates about competency-based registration, access and workplace culture.
Location
United Kingdom
Organizations
Architects Registration Board — UK statutory regulator and rulemaking body
This is a major preservation intervention where architecture, art conservation, desert ecology, accessibility, and the control of natural light must be reconciled without compromising Donald Judd’s site-specific installation.
Location
The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas
Organizations
The Chinati Foundation — Owner and steward; Schaum Architects — Design architect; Getty Conservation Institute — Art conservation partner; Lippincott, LLC — Conservation partner and original artwork fabricator
Bevel is a significant test of whether tall mass-timber commercial construction can move beyond one-off demonstrations into a large speculative workplace project. Its hybrid structural strategy, electrification, water reuse, biodiversity and public-realm agenda make it a strong construction-innovation story despite its preconstruction status.
Location
Corner of 106th Avenue NE and NE 9th Place, downtown Bellevue, Washington
Organizations
Skanska USA Commercial Development — Developer; Mithun — Co-lead architect; Waugh Thistleton Architects — Co-lead architect and engineered-timber specialist
The collaboration is a substantive example of architectural heritage being translated into commercial furniture and lighting rather than reproduced as surface branding alone. Its use of original layouts and Miriam Howitt’s show-flat work offers a timely entry point into the often-overlooked interior history of the Barbican.
Location
Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom; collection available through MADE.COM
Organizations
MADE — Collection designer, manufacturer and retailer; Barbican — Archive and institutional collaborator; London Design Festival — Presentation partner for the accompanying installation
Mexico City's major architecture festival begins September 17 with a concentrated international lineup and substantial public-space programming. Tickets are already on sale, routes will require registration and press outreach should happen now.
Location
Multiple venues across Mexico City, including Colegio de San Ildefonso, Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris, Alameda Central, Laguna, Museo Experimental El Eco, Museo de Arte Popular and Centro Cultural de España
Organizations
MEXTRÓPOLI — Festival organizer; Arquine — Organizing cultural and editorial platform; Secretaría de Cultura, Government of Mexico — Public supporter through PROFEST; LANZA Atelier — Keynote participant and 2026 Serpentine Pavilion designer
The four-day Mexico City festival provides a concentrated reporting opportunity around Latin American architecture, public-space installations and urban debate. The newly published program includes building tours, exhibitions and routes focused on O’Gorman, Candela, Goeritz and González de León.
Location
Multiple venues including Alameda Central, Colegio de San Ildefonso, Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris, Museo Experimental El Eco and Museo de Arte Popular, Mexico City, Mexico
Organizations
MEXTRÓPOLI — Festival; Arquine — Festival organizer; Secretaría de Cultura, Government of Mexico — Institutional supporter through PROFEST; Colegio de San Ildefonso — Opening venue; Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris — Main conference venue
The commission pairs a major contemporary architect with a socially and architecturally significant 1916 campus building. It is an early-stage preservation story with strong potential for interviews about adaptive reuse, accessibility, student life and contemporary intervention in a neo-Gothic setting.
Location
Ida Noyes Hall, University of Chicago, Midway Plaisance, Chicago, Illinois
Organizations
Steven Holl Architects — Lead architectural designer; University of Chicago — Client and owner; JLK Architects — Historic-preservation architect; Workshop Architects — Student-life programming and campus-operations planning
The first steel column is a significant construction milestone for an award-winning Brazilian research campus that combines elevated lightweight pavilions, student housing and ambitious Atlantic Forest restoration measures.
Location
Rua Barão de Oliveira Castro, Jardim Botânico, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Organizations
Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IMPA) — Client and operator; Andrade Morettin Arquitetos — Architect; Brazilian Ministry of Education — Public funding partner; Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation — Public funding partner
The transformation is a consequential preservation case: the practice founded by the building’s original architect is adapting a highly recognizable postmodern civic structure into Google offices while replacing its failing envelope and substantially changing its public image.
Location
James R. Thompson Center, 100 West Randolph Street, Chicago, Illinois
Organizations
Jahn — Architect; original building designer and renovation architect; Google — Owner and future occupant
A substantial institutional housing project addressing California’s acute student-housing shortage while targeting LEED Platinum performance. The design combines coastal climate response, all-electric systems and unusually high density without relying on a single megastructure.
Location
East Campus, University of California, Santa Barbara, California
Organizations
University of California, Santa Barbara — Client and campus owner; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill — Design architect; Mithun — Collaborating architect; PCL Construction Services — Construction services; Arup — Engineering consultant; Tom Leader Studio — Landscape architecture collaborator
An exceptional cultural opening with architectural, urban and sustainability significance. The $915 million museum is Western Sydney’s first major state cultural institution and pairs an expressive structural exoskeleton with more than 18,000 square metres of public and exhibition space.
Location
Powerhouse Parramatta, Parramatta River, Western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Organizations
Powerhouse — Museum operator and client; Moreau Kusunoki — Lead design architect; Genton — Local architect; Arup — Engineering consultant; Infrastructure NSW — Project delivery authority; Lendlease — Construction contractor; OMA/AMO — Design and curatorial collaborator for opening exhibition The Mall
A highly local housing-delivery story with immediate public deadlines, the initiative tests a small-scale pathway for transferring newly constructed homes to working Miami-Dade households through education, qualification, and a public lottery.
Location
Miami-Dade County, Florida
Organizations
Miami-Dade Economic Advocacy Trust — Program lead; JL Brown Development Corporation — Development partner for the newly constructed homes
The contractor appointment moves a significant American cultural and landscape project toward delivery: a new museum, restoration of a historic mill, and a 325-acre art-and-nature preserve designed as one connected destination.
Location
Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
Organizations
Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art — Client and operator; Kengo Kuma & Associates — Design architect for new museum building; Schwartz/Silver Architects — Associate architect; Field Operations — Landscape architect; Turner Construction Company — Joint-venture construction partner; Wohlsen Construction — Joint-venture construction partner
The city-backed competition combines a substantial $450,000 prize pool with a rare opportunity to reshape three highly visible entrances to downtown Baltimore. Its focus on infrastructure, civic identity and arrival sequences makes it stronger than a conventional public-art call, and the deadline is one week away.
Location
Three Baltimore gateway corridors: Russell Street from I-295/I-95; Conway Street from I-395/I-95; and President Street from I-83
Organizations
Baltimore Development Corporation — Competition administrator; City of Baltimore — Competition convener; Baltimore City Department of Transportation — Public-agency partner; Baltimore City Department of Planning — Public-agency partner; BCT Design Group — Competition design partner and producer of illustrative concept imagery
The newly documented Brazilian interior is a concise retail-design case study: monochromatic architecture, diffuse overhead light, and gallery-like presentation are used to slow circulation and elevate specialist books within a busy shopping center.
Location
MorumbiShopping, Avenida Roque Petroni Júnior 1089, São Paulo, Brazil
Organizations
ARCHITECTS OFFICE — Architecture and interior design; Livraria da Vila — Client and operator; Felco — Project photography
The US design-build festival has a strong editorial premise: structures produced this September are intended to become material and spatial foundations for reuse, alteration, and performance in 2027 and 2028. The live construction process offers distinctive access opportunities.
Location
Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel, New York, United States
Organizations
Bethel Woods Center for the Arts — Organizer and venue
The imminent occupation of a monumental 1890s warehouse by MIT's architecture and planning community is a major adaptive-reuse milestone, combining historic preservation, new institutional space, public galleries, studios, and interdisciplinary design research.
Location
134 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Organizations
Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Client and institution; Diller Scofidio + Renfro — Design architect; Leers Weinzapfel Associates — Associate architect; Reed Hilderbrand — Landscape architect; Silman Associates — Structural engineer; Altieri — MEP engineer; Tillotson Design Associates — Lighting designer; Atelier Ten — Sustainability consultant; Front Inc. — Facade consultant
A newly opened South Florida public-art project uses everyday transit infrastructure as exhibition space, offering a timely local story about design, emotional wellbeing, and the civic potential of advertising surfaces.
Location
Bus shelter advertising spaces, Miami, Florida, United States
Organizations
SaveArtSpace — Organizer and public-art platform; Leah Guzman — Curator; Shannon Scates — Selected artist
